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Health Care Env & En
Chapter 17
Question | Answer |
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Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) | an organization that provides comprehensive medical care to subscribers for a fixed fee. Such networks limit choices of doctors and treatments. More than half of Americans are enrolled in HMO's or similar programs. |
National Health Insurance | A compulsory insurance program for all Americans that would have the government finance citizens' medical care. First proposed by President Harry S. Truman. |
Medicare | A program added to the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other health expenses. |
Medicaid | A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who cannot afford them. Funded by state and national government. |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | The largest federal independent regulatory agency established in 1970 to coordinate programs and policies aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment |
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) | A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits. Agencies required to file environmental impact statements. |
Environmental Impact Statement | A detailing of a proposed policy's environmental effects, which agencies are required to file with the EPA every time they propose to undertake a policy that might be disruptive to the environment. |
Clean Air Act of 1970 | The law aimed at combating air pollution, by charging the EPA with protecting and improving the quality of the nation's air. |
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 | A law intended to clean up the nation's rivers and lakes by enabling regulation of point sources of pollution. |
Endangered Species Act of 1973 | A law requiring the federal government to protect all species listed as endangered. |
Superfund | A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites. Money for the fund comes from taxing chemical products. |
global warming | An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) |